Carlos Gordo

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."

(Letter, 17 June 1837)”
― George Sand, The Intimate Journal

“Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.”
― Max De Pree, Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“If you want me to battle your demons, I will fight until I can’t fight anymore, because that’s what you do for the person you love.”
― Nessa Morgan, Perfectly Flawed